“I don’t think you’re smarter than anybody else, but you’ve convinced a lot of us you are,” Reid said, deploying an Asian stereotype with batting an eye.

“One problem that I’ve had today is keeping my Wongs straight,” he added, noting that the common Asian surname has apparently made it difficult for him to distinguish one Asian-American from another.

LOL.

Oh, gosh. That’s just Harry being his precocious self, the press implied. “My comments were in extremely poor taste and I apologize,” he later said. “Sometimes I say the wrong thing.” All is forgiven.

But this is not the first time Reid has stepped in it with his blunt racial talk. In the book Game Change, Reid was quoted as backhandedly praising Barack Obama saying that he was especially well-suited to a national campaign because he was “light skinned” and spoke “with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.”

What a scamp.

It’s hard to play everyone’s favorite game, “What if a Republican Said it!” with this one, because so few Republicans are as imprudent as Reid was here. Republicans know all too well that they will be savaged in the press for indulging in even mildly insensitive racial humor.

One notable exception was Nevada politician and 2010 Republican nominee for U.S. Senate Sharron Angle who, during her campaign against Harry Reid, made the callous but nevertheless lighthearted assertion that a group of Hispanic students “look more Asian to me.”

Reid pounced. “I really don’t know what my opponent was talking about, because you all look like Nevadans to me,” he retorted to the cheers of both Nevadans and the political press alike.

“Her mouth does not have the ability to speak the truth,” he said of Angle at the time.

Recently, in fact, Reid has made a hobby of making sweeping assertions that Republicans of all stripes are hateful toward minorities. “They’ve done everything to dump on women,” the Silver State senator told MSNBC’s Chuck Todd in May. “They’ve done everything to dump on Hispanics, African-Americans, Asians, Gay and Lesbians, and … who else have I left off?”

Reid’s hypocrisy aside, the blatant duplicity of the liberal commentariat is far more flagrant. It seems like just yesterday that Comedy Central host and center-left favorite Stephen Colbert made a joke at the expense of the Asian-American community which was met with a campaign aimed at getting him fired.

“Last week on his Comedy Central show, Colbert resurrected his ‘satirical’ 2005 ‘Ching-Chong Ding-Dong’ skit, in which he speaks in pidgin English with a grossly exaggerated accent,” The New York Post reported in April. “He used it in a boneheaded attempt to ridicule Republican football team owner Dan Snyder and others who defend the Washington Redskins’ name.”

Get that? Colbert was attempting to skewer Republicans’ supposed racial insensitivity when he said that he was “willing to show the Asian community that I care by introducing the Ching-Chong Ding-Dong Foundation for Sensitivity to Orientals or Whatever.”

Last week, a group of diehard liberals, led by young Korean-American writer Suey Park, gave Colbert a hard time about his cringe-worthy act, which left the distinct impression that the real Colbert enjoys crude, ethnic-language mockery just a little too much.

Park and her liberal Twitter followers tenaciously questioned Colbert’s use of “satire” that ends up stoking the racism it purports to mock and abhor, using the incendiary hashtag #CancelColbert.

Colbert eventually issued an apology for this infraction. No word yet on whether Park and her ilk have launched a #FireReid campaign on Twitter.

This stereotyping of Asians has resulted in controversy for entertainers before. In 2006, The View host Rosie O’Donnell issued the most mealy-mouthed apology ever conceived by man after making a joke similar to Colbert’s (via People Magazine):

The controversy began when O’Donnell commented on a visit to the ABC morning show by a seemingly inebriated Danny DeVito, saying, “The fact is that it’s news all over the world. That you know, you can imagine in China it’s like: ‘Ching chong. Danny DeVito, ching chong, chong, chong, chong. Drunk. The View. Ching chong.’”

“So apparently ‘ching-chong,’ unbeknownst to me, is a very offensive way to make fun, quote-unquote, or mock, Asian accents,” O’Donnell said on the show. “Some people have told me it’s as bad as the n-word. I was like, really? I didn’t know that.”

“This apparently was very offensive to a lot of Asian people,” she added, shocked.

The reality is that Reid’s jokes were, while mildly insensitive, essentially harmless – far more harmless, in fact, than what Colbert and O’Donnell said. The reaction to Reid’s line has, however, been conspicuously muted. While the senator’s “jokes” were not intentionally hurtful and are relatively innocuous, the double standard applied to everyone who is not a key Democrat is not.

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He’s still around because he’s still useful to his party and cronies. When that usefulness is no more, Ol’ Dingy will retire. ‘Til that day comes, he, like Sheets Byrd before him will still bodily occupy a seat in the Senate even if his mind is no longer present, as we’ve already witnessed.

Racist, old, white, Mormon men are shielded if they have a magical “D” next to their name. Take the “D” away, and you’d probably think the above description would be applied by the media to Mitt Romney.

While the senator’s “jokes” were not intentionally hurtful and are relatively innocuous, the double standard applied to everyone who is not a key Democrat is not.

In other news… nah, I won’t go there.

Noah, you are a naif of the first rank concerning your and other leftists’ political biases. “Oh my goodness, there is a journalistic/ cultural double standard and its bad“.

Good of you to impute no possible negative meaning to Reid’s comments- I mean, we all know he’s such a kind man who would never impugn any one, so its clear he never meant these innocuous remarks to be hurtful.

Seriously, if they make you write this stuff that is critical of your fellow travelers, can’t you pretend to view it from an other-than-fascist viewpoint?

I think of Trent Lott endorsing Strom Thurmond’s presidency candidacy on his 100th birthday. Lott is stripped of his leadership role, and disgraced. Somehow if Reid said something similar at the 90th birthday of Robert Byrd, the former KKKer, all would be immediately forgiven.

He actually spoke to the Asian Chamber of Commerce to promote his candidate for Lieutenant Governor, Lucy Flores…and failed. The Chamber ended up endorsing the Republican candidate for Lieutenant Governor, Mark Hutchison. Props to them.

Let’s play ‘What if a GOP’er Said It’ with Harry Reid’s racially insensitive jokes

Nevermind the old-fashioned game of “Gee the media is biased.” Can anyone think of a situation where this kind of joke would be considered appropriate. Dems don’t respect Asians. Let’s not forget the way McConnell’s opponent in Kentucky decided attacking Elaine Chao for being Chinese was fair game.

What next, old rich white dude says he can’t go into a 7-11 without seeing an Indian person? Hooooo boy! That would be hiiiilarious! Because….convenience stores…you know…they’re always owned by…you know…Indians. HAHAHA.

Saying Asians are smarter than others is racist in the same way that saying white women have better hair than anyone else is racist. It’s no big deal (let’s call it “ethnic humor”) … and not because it’s not true (it is true), but because you are flattering Asians in the former case and flattering women in the latter case.

Now that I think of it, I am sure some non-Asians (but not whites) might object to the former, and many non-whites to the latter. Whites are non allowed to accuse anyone of anti-white racism, as we all know, because to do so is nonsensical, like a lion decrying meat-eating. Racism, having been invented by the European branch of homo sapiens, is strictly under the purview of those of European ancestry.

Democrats have good intentions…bless their hearts! (meant in true southern fashion)

Sides everyone knows that Republicans are evil anyway….Even when they don’t say something overtly racist, everyone knows they speak in code and dog whisltles and are teh RAAAACCCIIIIIISSSSTTTTT!!!1!11!1!!!1!

And of course the MSM lets him skate thru this just like they do all the Biden gaffs. And God forbid a GOP VP misspells potato, they won’t let that go for years.
Harry Reid is a despicable, low life that has no business being dog catcher let alone being in the Senate.

This is just how Harry Reid (D – NV) grieves over an American journalist having his head lopped off. Obama golfs and Reid tells off-color jokes. It’s all about healing and not letting the terrorists determine your schedule.

The controversy began when O’Donnell commented on a visit to the ABC morning show by a seemingly inebriated Danny DeVito, saying, “The fact is that it’s news all over the world. That you know, you can imagine in China it’s like: ‘Ching chong. Danny DeVito, ching chong, chong, chong, chong. Drunk. The View. Ching chong.’”

Why should that be offensive? That’s the sound of slot machines in Reid’s fiefdom in Vegas, where the President takes refuge to escape from Benghazi.

I personally see all this ethnic/racial, if done on a equal opportunity basis, as harmless.

The problem is, the liberals have painted themselves into politically-correct, diversity/divisive corner. They’re the one’s who see “code words” in simple words like ‘apartment’. They’re the one’s who hear dog whistles all the time (but looking at 99% of liberal women, that may be true).

My Dad legally emigrated from Greece in 1947, but he still can laugh at shots at the ‘stereotypical’ Greek like John Belushi’s SNL skits of “Hambuga, hambuga, Coke.” Or the movie “My Big Fat Greek Wedding”.

But you don’t see outrage on MSNBC or other LSM every time a well assimilated immigrant group gets fun poked at it.

That’s probably why the Asians in the audience laughed.

The only ones making this a big deal is Hairy Screed or the LSM when a conservative tries to make stupid jokes about an ethnic or racial group.

Even the conservatives wouldn’t be bringing this up, if the liberals hadn’t made it such a charged issue that they only use against the enemy.

First, it’s extremely odd to imagine Harry Reid being humorous. He has no record of eloquence or wit, in any forum. When liberals like him try to be funny, they sink immediately to the lowest rung on the ladder, which is race. Next, he avoids insulting blacks and Hispanics, but everyone else is fair-game.

Eh, I don’t have too much of an issue with it, regardless of who’s doing it. Which I guess is far too ‘controversial’ these days.

The controversy began when O’Donnell commented on a visit to the ABC morning show by a seemingly inebriated Danny DeVito, saying, “The fact is that it’s news all over the world. That you know, you can imagine in China it’s like: ‘Ching chong. Danny DeVito, ching chong, chong, chong, chong. Drunk. The View. Ching chong.’”

Oh god, I remember this – and Michelle Malkin’s bizzaro video response to it, where she went ‘ching chong ching chong’ for 2-3 minutes with subtitles underneath. Hearing her try to using a ‘scolding’ tone in her voice while she went ‘ching chong’ was hilariously bad. I can imagine the point she was trying to get across, but it didn’t work for me at all.